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Appendix E: Commissioned Literature Review
Pages 219-226

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From page 219...
... , MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS (MSIS) AND STEM Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania Andrés Castro Samayoa, Boston College Alice Ginsberg, University of Pennsylvania Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions Prepared for National Academy of Sciences Ad Hoc Committee Closing the Equity Gap: Securing Our STEM Education and Workforce Readiness Infrastructure in the Nation's Minority Serving Institutions August 6, 2017; revised September 3, 2017; revised November 2, 2017 Search #1: Literature Collection Strategy for Research on Under Represented Minorities (URMs)
From page 220...
... Search terms: "underrepresented minority" and STEM (false positives reduced by using full phrasing) URM and STEM "underrepresented minority" and "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics" "underrepresented minority" and "promising practices" "students of color" and "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics" "Meyerhoff" and "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics" Common Findings in Research Studies Pertaining to MSIs  Across the studies, we identified three recurring themes: • The importance of undergraduate research experience in STEM • Peer support groups improve students' persistence • Curricular structures affect students' persistence in STEM Overall Assessment of Research Pertaining to URMs and STEM A preponderance of research focused on URMs and STEM is framed through self-reported data collected via surveys.
From page 221...
... • Reports that primarily offered an overview of enrollment/completion/ persistence and/or other broad-level aggregate data by racial/ethnic groups were excluded from inclusion. Search terms: "Minority Serving Institutions" and "race" and "ethnicity" "Minority Serving Institutions" and "student success" "Historically Black Colleges and Universities" or "HBCUs" and "student success" "Hispanic Serving Institutions" or "HSI" and "student success" "Tribal Colleges and Universities" or "TCU" and "student success" "Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions" or "AANAPISIs" and "student success" "Historically Black Colleges and Universities" or "HBCUs" and best practices "Hispanic Serving Institutions" or "HSI" and best practices "Tribal Colleges and Universities" or "TCU" and best practices "Minority Serving Institutions" and "best practices" "Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions" or "AANAPISIs" and "student success" "Minority Serving Institutions" and "RISE" (no results as RISE is not a logged search term)
From page 222...
... Search #3: Literature Collection Strategy for Research on Minority Serving Institutions and STEM A total of 64 articles, reports, journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and proceedings were identified as relevant for examination in this review of the literature focused on STEM Education and Minority Serving Institutions. The committee-determined criteria for examination in this review were as follows: • Manuscript had to be in publication no later than 2006 (and up through 2017)
From page 223...
... Common Findings in Research Studies Pertaining to MSIs and STEM: Across the studies, we identified six recurring themes: • The importance of sustained and personalized faculty and peer mentoring throughout the undergraduate and graduate experience • Opportunities to do hands-on and culturally relevant research • Early recruitment of students and the importance of summer bridge programs • Opportunities to engage in summer institutes and other STEM-related extracurricular community activities • More sequenced and comprehensive courses, with special attention to Gateway courses • Improving career counseling and helping students with the transition to graduate school and into the STEM workforce Overall Assessment of Research Pertaining to MSIs and STEM The committee's standards for inclusion include: quasi-experimental design, experimental design, multisite case studies, or rich and deep single-site case studies. Very few studies meet this standard, limiting the research quality and generalizability.
From page 224...
... and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) tend to have more developed infrastructure and research facilities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
From page 225...
... . The impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the academic success of African American students.
From page 226...
... . Measuring the impact of MSI-funded programs on student success: Findings from the evaluation of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions.


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